Jewish Armed Forces Memorial

Historical marker location:

3506 Gwynnbrook Avenue, Owings Mills, Maryland

( Memorial is on Associated Way south of Garrison Forest Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1990

Maryland was a border state during the Civil War: During the Civil War, Maryland was a border state that remained in the Union but had many sympathizers with the Confederacy. The state was strategically important because it was located between Washington D.C. and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.